The game uses infantry and vehicles from the Sword of the Stars series and throws three factions together in a series of turn-based battles and campaigns. The game is coined as having both single and multiplayer and is inspired by the Panzer General series.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/08/30/sword-of-the-stars-ground-pounders-hits-kickstarter-free-demo-available/feed/0Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders announced for 2013 releasehttp://www.vg247.com/2013/08/14/sword-of-the-stars-ground-pounders/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/08/14/sword-of-the-stars-ground-pounders/#respondWed, 14 Aug 2013 02:28:32 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=397940Space 4X series Sword of the Stars has spawned another genre-defying spin-off: Ground Pounders, a turn-based strategy about the titular land units.

Inspired by games like Panzer General, Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders hoped to offer “an updated taste of turn-based warfare”.

Players will control one of a choice of three factions of “several dozen of types of units” across three campaigns on a variety of worlds, carrying unit progress through each. Successful assaults unlock action cards which can be used to customise troops with unique effects, which can then be used in single-player or in cross-platform multiplayer.

The game is currently in alpha, with a demo available, but Kerberos is hoping to crowdfund the remaining development time, as it did with previous Sword of the Stars spin-off The Pit. Details of the crowdfunding platform have not yet been released, nor do we know which platforms the finished game will grace beyond PC, but Kerberos said the strategy game will launch this year.

Dozens of scenarios to play in skirmish mode or cross-platform multiplayer

Scenario and unit editors will allow players to create and trade battles

SotSdex filled with lore details on famous units, personalities, battles and weapon systems

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/08/14/sword-of-the-stars-ground-pounders/feed/0Sword of the Stars: The Pit demo now available through GamersGatehttp://www.vg247.com/2013/02/23/sword-of-the-stars-the-pit-demo-now-available-through-gamersgate/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/23/sword-of-the-stars-the-pit-demo-now-available-through-gamersgate/#commentsSat, 23 Feb 2013 19:33:00 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=343052A six-level demo for Sword of the Stars: The Pit has been released by Kerberos Productions. The dungeon crawler, based on the firm’s Sword of the Stars 4X strategy games, is now available exclusively through GamersGate and for the first week will will available for 10% off. Head through the link to download the demo. Thanks, Blue.
]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/23/sword-of-the-stars-the-pit-demo-now-available-through-gamersgate/feed/2Sword of the Stars II gets opening cinematichttp://www.vg247.com/2011/08/23/sword-of-the-stars-ii-gets-opening-cinematic/
http://www.vg247.com/2011/08/23/sword-of-the-stars-ii-gets-opening-cinematic/#respondTue, 23 Aug 2011 09:16:02 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=197778Paradox has released the opening cinematic for Sword of the Stars II. Seems a bit Mass Effect-like, but only a tad, though. The sci-fi RTS is being developed at Kerberos Productions, and releases for PC on September 20.

Paradox has announced that Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter will be released sometime in 2011.

Developed by Kerberos Productions, Paradox Interactive purchased the rights to the Sword of the Stars franchise, after its original publisher, Lighthouse Interactive, shut its doors last year.

According to IGN (via BigDownload), the game contains the six different races from the original title, along with the original’s various expansions.

The races are a bit different this time around – at least in attitude – with the humans being more tolerant of other alien species. There will also be a new race called the Suul’ka, which is an ancient and malevolent species.

The sequel’s storyline will be brought to the forefront this time around, instead of being a background element, and the gameplay mechanics are getting an overhaul, along with a new Leviathan class ship, and while maintaining the original’s 2D turn-based play, combat sequences be in full 3D.

Assets have not been released as of yet, as the game is still a rather new undertaking, with a release expected sometime in 2011 at the earliest.

Not too much this week for this post, so don’t go into it expected a massive wall of text and tags – sorry to say.

Still, there’s a bit below the page break such as demos, Steam offerings, content updates, news on Prinny 2 and other stuff regarding games that normally bypass the front page.

Click onward and read all about it.

1C has announced that a demo for King’s Bounty: Armored Princess has been made available. You can download it here. The full game’s out on November 20 via most digital outlet sites. Anyway, back to the demo. It includes: A big island to explore, character Princess Amelie, a pet dragon (yay!)that does wondrous things on the battlefield, new races, new spells, how to turn a horse into a Pegasus, and a new engine supporting updated graphics. Armored Princess is an add-on to King’s Bounty: The Legend.

Big Brain Wolf has landed on Steam and is full of childhood fairytale folks like Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs, and the Seven Dwarves. It’s a point-and-click adventure with puzzles and an asthmatic vegetarian wolf studying to become a genie. There are 60 different puzzles you must solves to reveal clues to a mysterious murder. Hit up Steam for more info.

Asgard Heroes has gone into the Alpha stage of its Beta testing. The browser game features thousands of Altarians fighting for survival and you start out as a commander of an abandoned colony on a deserted planet, who must help rebuild and reach the stars. Sounds interesting enough. The full press release is over on GamersHell. Apply for the Beta through here.

A patch was released this week for Kerberos’ RPG, Fort Zombie. The updated includes free content such as:10 new missions, new weapons, support for incremental weapon reloading, and more along with bug fixes and tweaks. Full patch notes are through here. Via BigDownload.

Frogwares has announced that Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper will land in Europe for 360 on November 26. The game is already out for PC. It is worth noting though, that the events in the game never actually happened in literature. Although Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote a novel or short story about his famous sleuth investigating the dastardly Jack the Ripper, a movie called Murder by Decree was filmed starring the great Christopher Plummer and depicted such an event for celluloid in 1979. This must be where the idea for the game stemmed from, because it was indeed a great film and who would not have wished for Holmes to have gone after the creep of London? Furthermore, the idea is such a good one that a remake of the movie was made in 2001 by the Hughes brothers titled From Hell starring Johnny Depp, which understandably left out the great detective and replaced him with another sort of investigator instead. Both were very good movies, but highly fictional accounts of the real story and neither involved Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Be that as it may, if you are a fan of Holmes and his deductive reasoning, you may want to give this a go – IGN have it an 8/10 on PC ya know.

NIS has announced that its started work on Prinny 2 for PSP. Tentatively titled Prinny 2: Suicide Attack Game, and while that’s about all that has been revealed, the site says that in 1,000 hours it will re-open, teasing that it will have more information on the sequel. Yay. Another countdown site. Expect more info on this when that happens, sometime around Christmas. Thanks, Kotowari.

A video for Muse’s Gun of Icarus has popped up on the official site. It looks great, and is full of aerial combat. You like aerial combat. Go watch.